Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

KJV

præcepitque ei, dicens : Ex omni ligno paradisi comede ;

Vulgate

καὶ ἐνετείλατο Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀδὰμ λέγων Ἀπὸ παντὸς ξύλου τοῦ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ βρώσει φάγῃ·

LXX

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

ASV

וַ/יְצַו֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים עַל הָֽ/אָדָ֖ם לֵ/אמֹ֑ר מִ/כֹּ֥ל עֵֽץ הַ/גָּ֖ן אָכֹ֥ל תֹּאכֵֽל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
גַן
gn
noun · 42×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 811×
עֵ֣ץ
'ts
noun · 324×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צִוָּ֥ה
tsvh
verb · 489×

Covenant

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Those pastors are to be heard to whom the apostles committed the Churches, possessing one and the same doctrine of salvation; the heretics, on the other hand, are to be avoided. We must think soberly with regard to the mysteries of the faith. 1. Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which fact I have in the…
The devil is well practised in falsehood, by which Adam having been led astray, sinned on the sixth day of the creation, in which day also he has been renewed by Christ. 1. He had indeed been already accustomed to lie against God, for the purpose of leading men astray. For at the beginning, when God had given to man a variety of things for food, while He commanded him not to ea…
Theology of the Body · 3 passages
Analysis of the Biblical Account of Creation Last Wednesday we began this series of reflections on the reply Christ gave to his questioners on the subject of the unity and indissolubility of marriage. As we recall, the Pharisees who questioned him appealed to the Mosaic Law. However, Christ went back to the "beginning," quoting the words of Genesis. The "beginning" in this ca…
Man's Awareness of Being a Person In the preceding talk we began to analyze the meaning of man's original solitude. The Yahwist text gave us the starting point, in particular by the following words: "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him" (Gn 2:18). The analysis of the relative passages in the second chapter of Genesis has already br…
The Alternative between Death and Immortality Enters the Definition of Man Today it is opportune to return to the meaning of man's original solitude, which emerges above all from the analysis of the so-called Yahwist text of Genesis 2. As we have seen in the preceding reflections, the biblical text enables us to stress not only consciousness of the human body (man is created i…
Now when God was about to fashion man out of the visible and invisible creation in His own image and likeness to reign as king and ruler over all the earth and all that it contains, He first made for him, so to speak, a kingdom in which he should live a life of happiness and prosperity. And this is the divine paradise , planted in Eden by the hands of God, a very storehouse of …

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
  • 1Tim 4:4 — For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
  • 1Tim 6:17 — Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
  • Gen 1:11 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
  • Gen 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
  • Gen 2:9 — And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evi
  • Gen 3:1 — Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
  • Gen 3:3 — But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.